N-monochlorocyclohexylamine



Patented Jan. 18, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE N-MONOCHLOROCYCLOHEXYLAMINE Glen Alliger, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, assignor to The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio No Drawing; Application September 5, 1946, Serial No. 695,051

1 Claim. 1

The subject of this invention is N -monochloro-= cyclohexylamine, a new chemical compound v which is useful as an intermediate as, for example, in reactions with mercaptides having the formula RrSNa in which R may be any of the 5 usual mercaptide groups, such as an alkyl group, benzothiazyl, thiocarbamyl, etc.

The compound is prepared by adding one mol of sodium hypochlorite to 1.16 mols of cyclohexylamine. When no excess of cyclohexylamine was used, some dichlorocyclohexylamine was formed. The reaction-takes place according to the following equation:

, 2 Analysis for CsHmNCl:

Calc.: 01, 25.53 per cent Found: Cl, 26.93 per cent The usual strong oxidizing properties of N- chloroamines were exhibited by this compound; e. g., it liberated iodine from potassium iodide.

What I claim is:

N -monochlorocyclohexylamine.

GLEN ALLIGER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,333,468 Cooper Nov. 2, 1943 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 586,351 Germany Oct. 20, 1933 Certificate of Correction Patent No. 2,459,759. January 18, 1949.

GLEN ALLIGER It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows:

Column 2, line 2, for 25.53 per cent read 26.53 per cent;

and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed and sealed this 16th day of August, A. D. 1949.

THOMAS F. MURPHY, 7 Assistant Oommz'ssi oner of Patents. 

